Canadian Falun Gong practitioners are driving across Canada holding press conferences, to raise awareness of what they are terming a “new form of evil on the planet” and to get petitions signed, to visit local officials, to urge the Canadian government to publicly call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
“We are Falun Gong practitioners from Toronto. We are here to call for help from you. We are here to urge every Canadian resident to condemn the horrific organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China and help stop the persecution and mass killing for Falun Gong practitioners,” said Paula Liu when the group stopped in Yorkton last Wednesday, making a short speech on the steps of City Hall to an audience of two local media members. “We also urge China to arrest and prosecute Butcher Jiang Zemin who single-handedly started the brutal persecution 17 years ago.”
The tour seeking support—the group in Yorkton was one of several crisscrossing the country—was initiated as a response to recent findings that hit the media in June.
Material circulated Wednesday noted that on June 22, some national media reported a new alarming report by renowned Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former secretary of state for Asia Pacific, David Kilgour, that the Chinese communist regime is continuing to kill people who practice the spiritual discipline en masse in order to traffic their vital organs. Ten years ago, the first report confirmed the allegation. The new report says that upwards of 1.5 million may have been killed since 2000.
“Falun Gong is the spiritual discipline whose practitioners follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. Today, millions of people in over 100 countries around the world, including Canada, enjoy the peaceful practice of Falun Gong and live their lives according to its virtuous teachings. Falun Gong is also known worldwide as defenders for freedom of belief inside China,” explained Liu.
The situation in China dates back nearly two decades, said Liu.
“On July 20,1999 the Chinese communist party led by former dictator Jiang Zemin, ordered an illegal attack on Falun Gong with the mandate to “completely eliminate” the spiritual practice, when he found that one out of 12 Chinese were practicing Falun Gong, a practice that was not controlled by the communist party,” she said reading from a prepared statement.
“For the past 17 years, human rights groups, the United Nations and Western governments have documented the severe human rights abuses and propaganda targeting Falun Gong practitioners in and out of China. The abuses include killing of thousands, the imprisonment of millions in labour camps, the torture, and rape cases of tens of thousands, the destruction of tens of millions of families.
Liu said they are starting to see some positive response from other countries.
Based on all the evidence on June 13, 2016 the U. S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 343 calling on China’s communist regime to immediately stop forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and others. In 2013, the European Parliament also passed a resolution condemning organ harvesting abuse in China and calls on the Chinese regime to end immediately the practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience, she detailed.
But more pressure needs to come from the west, said Liu.
“Today, the deadly persecution still continues, however due to the support and awareness of Western government officials and people around the world, millions of people have signed petitions to demand an end to these crimes. A dozen of senior Chinese officials are facing lawsuits for these crimes and other nations have litigation prepared to sue these people if they step onto their soil,” she said.
“Moreover, nearly 200,000 Chinese nationals have filed criminal complaints against the former communist leader Jiang Zemin with genocide, torture and crimes against humanity and his followers, who are still in power and are now being targeted by the new president’s anti-corruption campaign.”
The stop in Yorkton was one looking to have local people contact government officials from City Hall to Regina to Ottawa calling on them to add their voices to the protest of the situation in China regarding Falun Gong practitioners.
“We are here to raise awareness and we call on our fellow Canadians and our government officials to take a firm stand on the right side of history, the side of righteousness, and publically call on the Chinese regime to end the persecution of Falun Gong,” said Liu.
